Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt and Leo in a Mafia film signed Martin Scorsese?
The project led by The Rock is described as freedmen … in Hawai.
The collaboration is unexpected to say the least … and exciting! Martin Scorsese could soon make a film with Dwayne Johnson And Emily Blunt and also Leonardo DiCaprio!
Deadline today reveals that Blunt and Johnson are behind this project, that they themselves proposed to Marty and Leo. After doing Cruise jungle together for Disney, the former American rock and the ex-Mary Poppins Briton have become quite close, and they will also play together in SMASHING Machinedirected by Benny Safdi for A24, which will be released in the cinema this year.
They no longer want to leave so they thought of this Mafia film project in Hawaii and went to hire Nick Biltonjournalist and director of the HBO documentary Fake Famous, To write their film, which will allow Dwayne Johnson To pay tribute to his Hawaiian roots, he who had long wanted to make a film there.
The idea obviously pleased Martin Scorsese And Leonardo DiCAPRI. The film would be a Mafia film around a merciless Hawaiian crime chief, based on a real character, who fought against rivals for the control of the crime organized in Hawaii. The character would have airs of Jimmy The Gent, interpreted by Robert de Niro in The freed.
More specifically, the story would take place in the 1960s and 1970s, a period troubled on the paradise island where an aspiring head of the mafia fought against rival criminal factions to take control of the underground world of the Hawaiian islands. This formidable and charismatic godfather rose to build the most powerful criminal Empire in the islands, carrying out a brutal war against continental societies and rival unions while fighting to preserve its ancestral land. The film is based on a true story.
We imagine that he would be embodied by Dwayne Johnsonwho will also be a producer with Blunt, Scorsese and DiCaprio. The director and the actor will therefore meet again after Killers of Flower Moonthey who are already working on another thriller, The Devil in the White Cityan adaptation on which they have been eyeing for years.
It remains to be seen when Mary, Leo, Emily and The Rock will be able to meet in Hawaii to film that, knowing that in addition to Devil in the White City,, Martin Scorsese In the viewfinder a biopic on Sinatra, a biblical epic on Jesus, and a film tribute to his parents.
